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WELCOME TO ROBABOB39 HORROR DVD AND BLURAY REVIEWS AND NEWS. I REVIEW MAINLY HORROR,SCI-FI ACTION,AND SOME COMEDY FILMS. I WILL TRY TO REVIEW MOST NEW RELEASES,ALSO SOME OLDER RELEASES TOO,AND FILMS I HAVE REALLY ENJOYED OVER THE YEARS.I AlSO WANT TO SHOWCASE INDEPENDENT FILMS, FROM SMALLER INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION COMPANIES.

A film I brought today, and only five of my British pounds spent on this movie. A film that isn't bad, but isn't great either, a film that was devoid of any scares, with myself able to predict at every moment when something was going to happen. Yes you have got it this film relies heavily on "Jump scares" to make you jump, but in fairness watching horror for over 30 years now, nothing seems to scare me anymore, so maybe I have become desensitised to the things witnessed on screen.

A film that was parodied better on a YouTube video, called how people react in real life to horror, with that video reminding me of this film, when two young men switch off a light they see a ghostly figure, it goes away when the light is back on, so and forth the light goes back, on and off untill the ghostly creature is right next to the young men, this is when they grab a baseball bat, and gun and shoot the shit out of this being like there is no tomorrow.

Then I watched this movie with almost the same premise, obviously without the dead pan humour, and irony, but the same idea a being that lurks in darkness and disappears when the lights turn on. This idea has been used in so many movies, from the likes of The Grudge, To The Conjuring 1 and 2, and the one reason why this movie just blends into just about every other horror movie made in recent years. If you want to see a genuinely scary movie set in the dark watch The Babadook, one of the scariest movies made of recent times, a movie that never not relies on Jump scares, but uses the darkness, and the one primal fear we are all scared of to the films advantage. Lights out just relies on a jump scare everytime the lights go out, meaning as a viewer you are almost prepared for any jump scare that is thrown at you, and the reason this film is not scary in anyway.

Plot Summary;

A mother plagued most of her life by a ghostly figure, suddenly reappears back in her family home, with it taking a dislike to her other children, as the ghostly being tries at every moment to attack her children in the darkness, hence the title Lights Out. With the being, haunting them no matter where they go or hide, they realise this being needs to be faced in their own family home, where it all started from, and the reason why the entity has attached it self to their mother.

The film is far from terrible, though is still not original, but the way the movie was filmed, is incredible, using light and darkness perfectly. The opening scene must have been a cinematographer's nightmare with just tiny spotlights creating very little light, surrounded by darkness in which the being resides, as I said it is a very well directed film from debut director David F. Sandberg, it is well acted especially by Maria Bello as the tormented mother, the creature is terrifying as we never see it properly just a dark shadow, which is the main plus point of this movie, the cinematography is amazing, and I think the reason this movie has such high scores on other internet sites, it is filmed incredibly well, but suffers from a very poor script, screenplay, and using jump scares at every dark scene, spoils any potential tension, knowing something will happen each time the room goes dark. A film that is so easy to second guess, with very little tension to scare you, that sadly ruins a very well directed film, a film that could have been terrifying using the darkness to its advantage, but ruins it by its overuse, and being able to second guess when every scare is going to be and when it will be.

The DVD and Bluray both come with exclusive deleted scenes, and both with an Ultraviolet code for your online viewing.

I came across this trailer on YouTube yesterday, and it is doing the rounds again on social media, a trailer first showing in 2015, that got everyone talking " is this for real" " this can not be a film can it?" As it turns out no, it is a trailer that is well made, but certainly is not going to be a film anytime soon.
A one joke trailer about a randy ghost intent on jerking men off, using handjobs, I'm surprised the tag line wasn't "Cumming soon".
This was obviously made by men with a running narrative that women cannot give a decent handjob, and having them do the deed is worse than death, instead you have a ghost who wants to jerk all men to death.
It is as awful as you'd expect it to be, but I still found myself chuckle a few times, it is rude, crude, insinuating, and in fairness harmless fun, a film if made I would actually probably watch, it certainly looks better than the recent Cabin Fever, Evil Dead 2013.

Tree is about to have a very bad day, again, and again and again.
College Grad Tree, a self centred bitch, who you take an instant dislike to, who is foul to everyone.
Treats everyone like dirt, then wonders why someone would want her dead. With a groundhog Day loop thing going on every time she is murdered she has to live through the same Monday the 18th, until she can find out her wants her dead, solve her own murder, and maybe become a better person in the mean time.The thing is I really wanted to hate this movie, but I couldn't, because of the performance from Jessica Rothe as Tree, in her first scream queen role, starring previously in La La Land, and Netflix's Parallels.
She is so likeable and believable in the role, although playing the bitch perfectly, she is deep down a damaged soul, still mourning the death of her mother, and her grief is her anger towards fellow People.
With some inventive kills, and no matter what Tree does, the day always ends in her death, with …

A film that strangely has been long forgotten, from 1980, and a film that has no mention about any remake or reboot. That is how this good film has been left on the shelf, compared to other slashers of that decade. Strange as it has possibly the best onscreen kills, with amazing practical effects from Gore master Tom Savini.

Plot summary;
A jilted soldier returns home from world war 2, hearing just before that his girlfriend has replaced him with another man. At the graduation ball of 1945, Rosemary is brutally slain alongside her new boyfriend. Shocking the town, that another ball has been postponed for 35 years. It is now 1980 the ball has been agreed once more, and the jilted soldier is not happy and decides to slay the party goers once more.

Formally known as the Prowler especially in the States, but changed to Rosemary's Killer in the UK. The film apart from the great Gore effects is quite average though, and probably why it has never been remade. With the jilted soldier in…

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Hi I'm Rob, I'm married with a daughter, and have a dog. Currently working part time. I also have my own Horror blog, Robabob39 Horror Film Reviews. I love writing,watching films,and giving my take on Horror films. I wear a beanie,I feel no need to wear a mask. What you see is what you get.